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Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids

by Melanie Notkin

Savvy Auntie is the first go-to source for taking delight in the Savvy Auntie lifestyle, based on the popular website and written by America's foremost expert on modern Aunthood, Melanie Notkin. Whether she's...

Handbook of Urban Ecology

by Ian Douglas & David Goode

This Handbook contains original contributions from leading academics and practitioners from across the world to provide an in-depth coverage of the main elements of practical urban ecology. The sixty-five chapters...

Education, Professionalization and Social Representations

by Mohamed Chaib & Berth Danermark

This book scrutinizes how social - common sense - knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in different social and psychological contexts, particularly in research related to education, social work...

Parentless Parents

by Allison Gilbert

Parentless Parents is the first book to show how the absence of grandparents impacts everything about the way mothers and fathers raise their children—from everyday parenting decisions to the relationships...

Don't Bring Home a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women From Dating Out

by Karyn Langhorne Folan

In Don’t Bring Home a White Boy, writer Karyn Langhorne Folan debunks the myths about interracial relationships. Drawing on real-life testimonials, she boldly tackles this difficult subject with warmth, humor,...

How to Raise a Brighter Child

by Joan Beck

THE LATEST STUDIES PROVE SOONER IS SMARTER

• How much is a child capable of learning before the age of six?

• What happens to a child's brain during the preschool years when the body is growing so rapidly?

• How...

Mothering Twins: From Hearing the News to Beyond the Terrible Twos

by Linda Albi, Deborah Johnson & Debra Catlin

Invaluable real-life advice and emotional support for mothers of multiples.

Meeting the double challenge and reaping the double rewards of having twins can be both exhilarating and exhausting. In this comprehensive...

Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women

by Genevieve Field

It's all about you. Your apartment. Your job. Your dates. Your sex life. Your time off. Your exercise. Your food. Your music. Your future. What are you waiting for? Who will you love? What is it, really, that...

Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women

by Dr. Christine B. Whelan

For years, it's been "common knowledge" that once a woman hits thirty, her chances of finding a husband diminish to the point of despair. That men are intimidated by a woman's career success, preferring docile...

The Nursing Mother's Problem Solver

by Claire Martin

Finally! Answers to your most urgent questions in an easy-to-use format!

Based on questions posed by thousands of real mothers, this A-to-Z guide has a practical, realistic view of how nursing fits into a modern...

The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group

by Laurie Abraham

A PAGE-TURNING GLIMPSE INTO FIVE MARRIAGES AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THEM

For more than a year, journalist Laurie Abraham sat in with five troubled couples as they underwent the searing process of group marriage...

Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports

by Michael Sokolove

Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North...

Favorite Family Meals

by Annabel Karmel

If we want our children to grow up healthy and strong, we need to include more fresh foods in their diets. More and more children and adolescents are now considered over-weight or obese. Fast food and poor-quality...

Healthy Teens, Body and Soul: A Parent's Complete Guide

by Andrea Marks & Betty Rothbart

This breakthrough book covers the head-to-toe, outside-inside health needs of today's 10- to 21-year-olds. Written by experts in adolescent medicine and parent-child relationships, this comprehensive reference...

Around the World in 80 Dates

by Jennifer Cox

Sorry, Dorothy--sometimes your heart's desire isn't in your own backyard.

Head of PR and spokesperson for Lonely Planet travel guides, Jennifer Cox has explored the most remote regions, toured the most exotic...

101 Ways to Be a Terrific Sports Parent: Making Athletics a Positive Experience for Your Child

by Joel Fish

The determining factor in whether a child between the ages of six and seventeen enjoys athletics is his or her parents -- not the sport, coach, or team. Yet, parents are often unaware of how their behavior and...

Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom

by D.g. Fulford

Funny, poignant, and wise, Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom is D .G. Fulford's uplifting story of how, after her father's death, she returned home to become her mother's closest companion--a move...

The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling

by PhD, Jeanne Safer

In the first book of its kind, renowned psychotherapist Jeanne Safer examines the hidden trauma of growing up with an emotionally troubled or physically disabled sibling, and helps adult "normal" siblings resolve...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adoption, 2nd Edition

by Christine Adamec

"A beacon through the often tangled and varied paths to parenting through adoption."- William Pierce, President, National Council for Adoption

Hailed as "an extremely valuable resource" by Jann Heffner, executive...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting

by Erika Lutz

You’re no idiot, of course.  You know how to push a toddler on a swing, the recipe for the best gooey chocolate chip cookies, and even how to get teens to confide in you.  Your own kids think you’re hip,...